This blog currently documents a research trip to twelve former Soviet Republics for a new regional project of the Goethe-Institut (2015-17). Earlier entries document the "Afro-Tech and the Future of (Re-)Invention" research trip to Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria (10-25 April 2014, Anne Bergner and Inke Arns), and the INDUSTRIAL on Tour trip to five industrial cities in Poland (27 Sep - 9 Oct 2011, Thibaut de Ruyter, Inke Arns et al.)

... that we barely find time to blog! Sorry. We arrived in Moscow on Monday evening and since Tuesday morning have been meeting people, visiting exhibitions and museums, and taking the Metro. I (Inke) now understand why people are driving cars in Moscow: It's literally one of the few places where it's relatively silent.

This is *not* one of the Metro stations (although it could be, really!), but the rocket-shaped interior of the Cinema of the Museum of Cosmonautics (underneath the huge rocket sculpture near VdNKh).

We promise to blog regularly from now on, and will also tell you what happened between now and Tuesday ;-)